Saki Puro-hen キタ━━━━(゜∀゜)━━━━ッ!!

Word has been out already that Ritz and Aguri liked working together enough to start another Saki-related project following the completion of Saki Achiga-hen, but so far we could only speculate on what the new serialization would contain.

Now the cat’s out of the bag – starting from 25th September, the Ritz x Aguri combo will start serializing a new story following the previous mahjong generation, most of whom we know as active pros appearing in the main story.

I am so looking forward to this. Already we have some new information regarding the power balance in the old Saki world, with Ms. Taciturn-pro showing up in a Shindouji uniform. Other things to look forward to:

The Legend-Grandmaster-Hayarin-Taciturn square-off featured above – one match to determine the strength tiers of half the known pros

Kokaji Sukoya during her ascent – the more we learned about her, the less we understood. Will the past bring us answers?

Harue during her prime – what are the limits of the perfect analysis-type player against ability users?

The ‘beloved by the tiles’ phenomenon – was it in full swing ten years ago, or is it something unique to the current generation?

Not only is the base release speed half of your usual shounen series at twice monthly, but Ritz often misses chapters AND had an accident recently. There’s a lot working against us ever seeing the conclusion to the main story xD.

Oh, I love your blog entries about Saki! They get me thinking about so many things that I missed with the series that I’m probably overly-obsessed with😄

Anyway! I’m so pumped for this story! I love the Saki girls, but I’m always drawn to the adults in the series more, and Harue is my fave! Although this series won’t be portraying their adult lives (probably anyway), it’s still something that I’m greatly looking forward to fawning over.

So who do you think the ‘mystery’ girl is on the last page? I really agree with what you said about this story probably majorly tying into the mysteries of the main Saki series.

There have been additional images released since this update, and it seems that we might follow the story of the previous generation from the eyes of an entirely new school. We still don’t know what connection the new characters will have with our favorite pros, but the opening chapter should be coming out soon, so we’re about to find out!